Main entity: International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Description: Cities of the future: resilient in the face of climate variability - Urban citizens worldwide are increasingly suffering the effects of climate-related disasters such as floods, droughts, heatwaves, landslides and severe storms. This visual story highlights the importance of...
Main entity: The Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit
Description: "IPCC Explainer: The Science of Climate Change" infographic, developed by John Lang, demonstrates the data and information shared in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR60).
Main entity: Humboldt University of Berlin
Description: The connectivity of green infrastructure facilitating the movement of organisms is the key to strengthening biodiversity in cities. Brownfields are a valuable land resource, with their revitalisation as a Nature Based Solution high on the policy agenda. In supporting cities...
Main entity: APAN Regional Hub
Description: The mission of APAN is to build climate change resilient and sustainable human systems, ecosystems and economies through the mobilisation of knowledge, enhanced institutional capacity and informed decision making processes, and facilitated access to finance and technologies. The...
Main entity: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Description: Founded in 2010, the Global Adaptation Network (GAN) provides a worldwide platform to distribute and exchange climate change adaptation knowledge in a variety of ways. It emphasizes the value of direct personal exchange and partnerships, often within particular regions of...
Main entity: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Description: REGATTA´s objective is to strengthen capacity and knowledge sharing of climate change technologies and experiences for adaptation and mitigation in Latin America and the Caribbean.
This regional Network is also contributing to the implementation of the Climate Technology Centre...
Main entity: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Description: EBAFOSA is an inclusive pan-African policy implementation action framework that provides a platform and technical guidance to all stakeholders - state and non-state to drive transformational climate action right down to communities through innovative Volunteerism. Including...
Main entity: International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Description: The guidebook aims to serve as a framework for developing, implementing and mainstreaming Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) measures in river basins throughout Thailand.
Part 1 of the Guidebook provides a background of the development of the concept of Nature-Based Solutions and...
Main entity: International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Description: GrowGreen: Urban growth - challenge or opportunity? This visual story highlights the importance of achieve long-lasting change in cities by integrating Nature-Based Solutions into their planning, development, and management.
Description: Globally, floods are the most frequent and damaging natural hazard. To help manage the impact of flooding on people and economies, the World Bank provides technical assistance, advisory services, and financing to its client countries through a range of resilient urban...
Description: Nature-based Solutions (NBS) that strategically conserve or restore nature to support conventionally built infrastructure systems (also referred to as gray infrastructure) can reduce disaster risk and produce more resilient and lower-cost services in developing countries. In the...
Main entity: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Description: UNDP and the Global Environment Facility support the Government of Albania's plans to double Marine Protected Areas, and improve their overall management. In close cooperation with national partners, this includes: - improving the legal and regulatory framework that supports...
Main entity: Ramsar Convention on Wetlands
Description: Along the coastline, wetlands act as a natural protective buffer. Inland, they act as a natural sponge, absorbing and storing excess rainfall and reducing flooding. During the dry season, they release the stored water, delaying the onset of droughts and reducing water shortages...
Main entity: Green Knowledge Platform
Description: The Green Finance Platform (GFP) is a global network of organizations and experts that address major knowledge gaps in sustainable finance.
Main entity: Green Knowledge Platform
Description: The Green Industry Platform (GIP) provides sector-and country-specific technical and practical knowledge to support a green industrial transformation.
Main entity: Green Growth Knowledge Partnership
Description: The GGKP's three knowledge platforms the Green Policy Platform, Green Industry Platform, and Green Finance Platform – offer quick and easy access to the latest research, case studies, guidance, and tools to empower policy makers and advisors, small and mediumsized enterprises (...
Main entity: International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Description: This Resource Center supports the goals and delivery of numerous projects focused on advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment throughout natural resource management activities. Housing knowledge platforms and information hubs for specific gender and environment...
Main entity: Ecosystem Services Partnership
Description: Worldwide network to enhance the science, policy and practice of ecosystem services for conservation and sustainable development
Main entity: ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies
Description: This program expands the scope of contemporary coral reef research, from a predominantly biological focus to a broader understanding of the links between coral reef ecosystems, the goods and services they provide to people, and the wellbeing of human societies.
Main entity: Connect4Climate
Description: The Connect4Climate community connects about 500 partners around the world including civil society groups, media networks, international organizations, academic institutions, youth groups, and the private sector.
Main entity: Connect4Climate
Description: This resource is a dedicated article on the topic of Nature-Based Solutions and how they are a fundamental component of action for climate and biodiversity. NBS are win-win solutions that strengthen the connection of people and communities to nature and involve protecting,...
Description: This publication aims to provide guidance to developing countries on accessing finance for the implementation of coastal and marine nature-based solutions to increase their resilience to extreme climatic events.The publication also contributes towards addressing the gaps and...
Main entity: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Description: the world, for the benefit of people and nature. It aims to halt the degradation of ecosystems, and restore them to achieve global goals. Only with healthy ecosystems can we enhance people’s livelihoods, counteract climate change, and stop the collapse of biodiversity.
The UN...
Main entity: Duke University
Description: The Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University improves environmental policymaking worldwide through objective, fact-based research to confront the climate crisis, clarify the economics of limiting carbon pollution, harness emerging environmental...
Main entity: Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
Description: This deliverable describes the barriers and success factors to successfully co-create nature-based solutions(NBS). The potential positive interactions of environmental, economic and social systems lie at the heart of NBS. The interventions planned within the CLEVER Cities...
Main entity: Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
Description: Looking at CLEVER solutions to bring NBS from innovation to market. It is divided into three sections: Governance Models for NBS, Business Models for NBS and Financing Models for NBS. Together, these sections make up deliverable 5.3 which connects CLEVER solutions with business...
Main entity: Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
Description: To provide a comprehensive insight into the market environment of the NBS, so-called "CLEVER Solutions" implemented within the framework of CLEVER Cities, the present report refers to three selected solutions: green roofs, vegetated noise barriers and urban gardening
Main entity: HafenCity University Hamburg
Description: The paper identifies and discusses the main emerging factors and challenges from (1) a procedural and methodological perspective and (2) concerning the different roles of the diverse stakeholders involved.
Main entity: The Nature Conservancy
Description: This platform provides guides and tools based on The Blue Guide for Coastal Resilience. This Guide enables disaster risk reduction practitioners to learn about how nature-based solutions (NbS) can protect people and property specifically in coastal areas. NbS in coastal areas...
Main entity: Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center
Description: Mission: The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) is dedicated to fostering synthetic, actionable science related to the structure, functioning, and sustainability of socio-environmental systems.
Description: PEDRR is the clearinghouse for knowledge, training, advocacy and practice on Ecosystem-based Disaster Risk Reduction (Eco-DRR). Eco-DRR is the sustainable management, conservation and restoration of ecosystems to reduce disaster risk, with the aim to achieve sustainable and...
Main entity: CARTIF Technology Centre
Description: This deliverable aims to provide a clear and a comprehensive framework for the development of business models for NBS that can be used by cities.
Main entity: University of Melbourne
Description: Cities globally are greening their urban fabric, but to contribute positively to the biodiversity extinction crisis, local governments must explicitly target actions for biodiversity. We apply the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (...
Main entity: University of Manchester
Description: The Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) concept is the most recent entry to discussions around how “nature” can be mobilized to render urban areas more resilient to the threat of climate change. The concept has been championed by the European Commission (EC) as a tool that can...
Main entity: URBAN GreenUP
Description: URBAN GreenUP is a project funded under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme. Its objective is the development, application and replication of Renaturing Urban Plans in a number of European and non-European partner cities with the aim to mitigate the effects of climate...
Main entity: CARTIF Technology Centre
Description: In order to be able to select the best options to introduce them in the development of a RUP, allowing the definition of different scenarios, which have been evaluated to define its viability and impact to improve the behaviour of the city regarding the climate change challenges...
Main entity: RMIT Centre for Urban Research
Description: The Urban GreenUP ‘NBS Selection Tool’ has been designed to help local governments choose from the many NBS options in our NBS catalogue. This tool is a decision support tool – it’s designed to give suggestions that may help improve you choose the right NBS for you, based on...
Main entity: Bocconi University
Description: This paper critically analyses the methodologies that can be adopted to value ecosystem services (ESs) at the urban level through a literature review. While literature on ES valuation has grown in recent years, its application to urban contexts is still limited. Twenty-five...
Main entity: UN Global Compact
Description: This article's focus is calling on all companies to support greater action in support of Nature-Based Solutions for Climate highlighting the importance of nature for addressing the climate crisis as one of the major deliverables for the UN Climate Action Summit.
Main entity: International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Description: This issue brief focuses on the importance of conserving healthy soil, which defining elements are:
The health of soils is dependent on the variety of organisms they contain, known as soil biodiversity.
The amount of soil biodiversity determines the productivity of land, and...
Main entity: International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Description: IUCN and WBCSD have joined forces to develop this manual that describes the various knowledge products that exist and explain how they can help businesses in assessing, valuing, managing and reporting on businesses’ impacts and dependencies on biodiversity, and in achieving...
Main entity: International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Description: IUCN’s Common ground report shows how soil and landscape biodiversity can benefit society and help overcome major challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss and food and water insecurity.
Main entity: International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Description: This Guide offers the environmental authorities of each country technical guidance documents for proper environmental management of low and moderate impact projects for infrastructure sector activities. This environmental management instrument includes provisions, guidelines and...
Main entity: International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Description: Countries are responding to the economic impacts of COVID by allocating trillions of dollars to fiscal stimulus packages and beginning to develop longer-term economic recovery programs. Governments are likely to invest much more to get economies and societies back in shape over...
Main entity: International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Description: This article highlights the role of nature and nature-based solutions to urban challenges in an urbanizing world with a growing population.
Main entity: International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Description: This issue brief focuses on the benefits and risks of rewilding and how the misuse of the increasingly popular rewilding concept risks alienating communities, harming existing biodiversity and undermining confidence in a technique with enormous conservation potential.
Main entity: International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Description: This issue brief focuses on Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) and how involving the conservation, sustainable management and restoration of ecosystems can help people adapt to the impacts of climate change.
Main entity: International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Description: This issue brief focuses on clear parameters defining nature-based solutions and a common framework. Such a framework is essential in order to increase the scale and impact of the NbS approach, prevent unanticipated negative outcomes or misuse, and help funding agencies, policy...
Main entity: International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Description: Evidence shows that there are direct links between environmental pressures and gender-based violence and that the degradation of nature, competition over increasingly scarce resources and environmental crime can all exacerbate violence.
Main entity: International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Description: IUCN Global Standard on Nature-based Solutions User Group will provide those who have registered the IUCN NbS self-assessment tool and relevant updates on the tool and the Global Standrad.
Main entity: International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Description: IUCN Issues Briefs provide key information on selected issues central to IUCN’s work. They are aimed at policy-makers, journalists or anyone looking for an accessible overview of the often complex issues related to nature conservation and sustainable development.
Main entity: International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Description: This issue brief focuses on the importance of redirecting governmental economic stimuli funding to nature, to avoid recovery investments risk exacerbating the biodiversity and climate crises and ultimately damaging economies.
Main entity: International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Description: This issue brief focuses on cost-effective, no-regret solutions nature can provide to disasters, complementing conventional engineering measures such as sea walls and storm channels.
Main entity: International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Description: This document provides guidance on the use of IUCN Global Standard on Nature-based Solutions: A user-friendly framework for the verification, design and scaling up of Nature-based Solutions.
Main entity: International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Description: The IUCN Global Standard on Nature-based Solutions provides a user-friendly framework for the verification, design and scaling up of Nature-based Solutions.
Main entity: Amigos de los parques
Description: Amigos de los parques es una corporación que nace para cuidar y poner en valor los Parques Nacionales de la Patagonia.
Description: Nature-based solutions can help overcome urban sustainability challenges by providing services, creating benefits and holding value for different urban actors. However, the development of nature-based solutions is hampered by a number of barriers that relate to the value...
Main entity: Lund University
Description: The tool aims to support decision-making on NBS by allowing the simulation and visualisation of ecosystem service-based costs & benefits scenarios through a graphical user-friendly interface.
Description: Define the best implementation tool for your NBS project
Main entity: Nature4Cities
Description: Platform presenting data about different solutions implemented
Description: In this deliverable the different urban and environmental governance models have been mapped and characterized in order to assess their suitability for different NBS projects. Five clusters have been identified and distributed according to the involved actors (government,...
Description: Nature4Cities has developed a knowledge repository and various tools that enable practitioners in the uptake of NBSs in various ways. This handbook is particularly suited for government officials, practitioners, and project coordinators working in the public domain who are not...
Main entity: University of Bordeaux
Description: In the context of climate change, Nature-Based Solutions (NBSs), a recently developed concept, are increasingly considered as part of the adaptation strategies of the cities. Studies using expert models and methods (EMM) receive a great deal of scientific attention. Considering...
Main entity: Nature4Cities
Description: In this section, you will find thematic papers and academic publications written in the scope of the Nature4Cities european project.
Main entity: Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST)
Description: This paper aims to identify the nexuses between urban challenges (UC), ecosystem services (ES) and NBS, discuss their plausible causal relationships, and how these relationships can be affected by urban context conditions.
Main entity: Université de Nantes
Description: In urban areas, soil functions are deeply impacted by all human activities, e.g., water infiltration, carbon storage, and chemical substances degradation potential. In this context, nature-based solutions (NBS) are assumed to deliver multiple environmental benefits for soil...
Description: This step-by-step guide is developed for practitioners responsible for implementing Nature-Based Solutions. The guide follows a user-centric approach based on the assumption that citizen and stakeholder engagement is not just one step to be taken, but a necessary transversal...
Main entity: Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST)
Description: Embedding nature-based solutions (NBS) in cities is expected to bring quantifiable benefits, including resilience to flooding, drought, and heatwaves, and air quality improvement. Among NBS, green roofs have an important role in temperature regulation in buildings and in...
Description: This is a database produced from 57 documents on NBS through the Nature4Cities project.
Main entity: Nature4Cities
Description: This interactive tool visualizes the urban NBS and the urban challenges.
Description: InnoForESt supports the governance of viable innovations and a multi-actor network by building on pioneer policy tools and business models, by establishing new alliances, and by involving key stakeholders from forest and forest-related policy, administration and business. The...
Main entity: EPBRS; Biodiversa
Description: The aim of this participatory workshop was to explore how nature-based solutions (NBS) can be a response to, or a catalyst for, social innovation to address emerging issues in relation to human well-being and health, governance strategies, land planning and management, and...
Main entity: EKLIPSE Expert Working Group
Description: This report explores the multiple dimensions of the impact that NBS projects may have when implemented at different scales, from building to regional.
Description: EKLIPSE is a developed mechanism for supporting better decisions on environment based on the best available knowledge.
Description: The main objective of this handbook is to guide the development of investable NbS propositions and bankable NbS projects for both public and private investors through different modes of governance, funding and implementation arrangements. The methodology it proposes - the...
Main entity: National University of Singapore
Description: The Centre’s mission is to produce policy-relevant science on nature-based climate solutions – tackling climate change by protecting and better managing natural ecosystems – to address knowledge gaps, build capacity and deliver pragmatic solutions and innovations to inform...
Main entity: alchemia-nova GmbH
Description: This document provides an overview of current efforts for a circular water economy in Europe, including demonstration cases and policy initiatives. It also describes barriers to adoption of nature-based wastewater treatment for resource recoveries as experienced by practitioners...
Description: In order to assess the best enabling conditionsto transfer and replicate the HYDROUSA solutions, the deliverable frames HYDROUSA water loops within the context of EU directives and ongoing policy initiatives. International water and materials quality standards, that are...
Main entity: Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology
Description: This paper provides an overview of the recent work mapping and assessing ecosystem service in Malta and the implications for decision-making. Research has focused on the identification and mapping of ecosystems, and ecosystem condition, the capacity to deliver key ecosystem...
Description: reNature utilizes the vast potential of Regenerative Agroforestry in fighting today’s most pressing challenges, such as climate change, poverty, biodiversity loss, and food insecurity. We rethink the way farming is currently done going beyond sustainability by designing and...
Main entity: Technical University of Munich
Description: The mission of the chair is the analysis of hydrological data and processes and the development of applied hydrological models for the sustainable management of water resources in Bavaria, Germany and worldwide.
Main entity: Saint Mary's University
Description: We know that coastal communities in Atlantic Canada are at risk from the hazards of climate change. This can have serious implications for people’s homes, livelihoods and the economy. TransCoastal Adaptations’ framework for implementing nature-based solutions guides coastal...
Main entity: Endangered Landscapes Programme
Description: The Côa Valley of Northern Portugal is an important region for birds of prey and apex predators, but overhunting and persecution have diminished populations of these species, disrupted food chains and damaged local ecology. This project will create a crucial wildlife corridor in...
Description: PECS aims to integrate research on the stewardship of social–ecological systems, the services they generate, and the relationships among natural capital, human wellbeing, livelihoods, inequality and poverty.
Main entity: Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research
Description: Kuwait’s economic growth and shoreline development has resulted in a compromised marine ecosystem and the degradation of various marine species’ habitats. Marine ecosystem biodiversity has also been affected by the unregulated exploitation of the marine environment by the...
Main entity: Ecoagriculture Partners
Description: EcoAgriculture Partners is the leading non-profit champion of integrated landscape management, helping communities and organizations grow healthy and resilient places from the grassroots up.
Main entity: Canadian Society of Landscape Architects
Description: Nature-based Solutions (NbS) provide society with powerful alternatives to challenges posed by climate change, biodiversity loss, food security and accessibility to clean water. Recognizing how fast environments are changing in today’s world, landscape architects often seek the...
Main entity: Trinity College Dublin
Description: Nature-based enterprises (NBEs) are defined as enterprises, engaged in economic activity, that use nature sustainably as a core element of their product/service offering for the planning, delivery and/or stewardship of nature-based solutions. Nature-based enterprises differ from...
Main entity: Trinity College Dublin
Description: Trinity College Dublin, with feedback from the front-runner cities of Genk, Glasgow and Poznan have adapted the well-known business model canvas tool (Osterwalder & Pigneur 2010) to better capture the wider value proposition of nature-based solutions.
Main entity: Trinity College Dublin
Description: How Do You Finance Nature-Based Solutions?
Main entity: Trinity College Dublin
Description: To assist you in developing your NBS, Connecting Nature has produced a series of mini guidebooks. The overall Connecting Nature Framework Guidebook is a good starting point. There is also a guidebook for each element of the framework process describing the implementation steps...
Main entity: Université Libre de Bruxelles
Description: The paper contributes to the literature on urban forestry and urban sustainability by filling gaps in the knowledge on viable business, financing, and governance models for nature-based solutions. Through two case studies, we provide empirical illustrations for business models...
Main entity: Dutch Research Institute for Transitions (DRIFT)
Description: Co-production is a novel governance method for developing naturebased solutions where there are a lot of actors (individuals, groups or organisations) involved. Co-production is about collaboration, empowerment and producing shared results, such as policies and visions. This...
Main entity: City of Genk
Description: Coordinated by Trinity College Dublin, Connecting Nature is a consortium of 30 partners within 16 European countries, and hubs in Brazil, China, Korea & The Caucasus (Georgia and Armenia). We are co-working with local authorities, communities, industry partners, NGOs and...
Main entity: City of Glasgow
Description: Coordinated by Trinity College Dublin, Connecting Nature is a consortium of 30 partners within 16 European countries, and hubs in Brazil, China, Korea & The Caucasus (Georgia and Armenia). We are co-working with local authorities, communities, industry partners, NGOs and...
Main entity: University of East London
Description: The Nature-Based Solutions Initiating Scaling Guidebook by Stuart Connop & Paula Vandergert is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The Nature-Based Solutions Initiating Upscaling Guidebook is based on the City Retrospection,...
Main entity: City of Poznan
Description: Coordinated by Trinity College Dublin, Connecting Nature is a consortium of 30 partners within 16 European countries, and hubs in Brazil, China, Korea & The Caucasus (Georgia and Armenia). We are co-working with local authorities, communities, industry partners, NGOs and...
Main entity: European Commission, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation
Description: The Handbook aims to provide decision-makers with a comprehensive NBS impact assessment framework, and a robust set of indicators and methodologies to assess impacts of nature-based solutions across 12 societal challenge areas: Climate Resilience; Water Management; Natural and...
Main entity: CLEARING HOUSE
Description: We will analyse and compare the implementation of UFBS in selected Chinese and European cities and city regions in view of their impacts on urban ecosystems and societies, their cost effectiveness, and their replicability in distinct contents. The European case studies are...
Main entity: HSBC Pollination Climate Asset Management
Description: HSBC Pollination Climate Asset Management intends to establish a series of natural capital funds, investing in a diverse range of activities that preserve, protect and enhance nature over the long-term, and address climate change.